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The ''Hastings Center Report'' is a bimonthly
peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work ( peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...
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of
bioethics Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biology, me ...
. It is published by
Wiley-Blackwell Wiley-Blackwell is an international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons. It was formed by the merger of John Wiley & Sons Global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business with Blackwell Publish ...
on behalf of the
Hastings Center The Hastings Center for Bioethics is an independent, nonpartisan bioethics research institute in Garrison, New York. Its mission is to address ethical issues in health care, science, and technology. Through its projects and publications and its pu ...
(
Garrison, New York Garrison is a Hamlet (New York), hamlet in Putnam County, New York, Putnam County, New York (state), New York, United States. It is part of the town of Philipstown, New York, Philipstown, on the east side of the Hudson River, across from the U ...
). The
editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The editor-in-chief heads all departments of the organization and is held accoun ...
is Gregory Kaebnick. According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports ''Journal Citation Reports'' (''JCR'') is an annual publication by Clarivate. It has been integrated with the Web of Science and is accessed from the Web of Science Core Collection. It provides information about academic journals in the natur ...
'', the journal has a 2021
impact factor The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a type of journal ranking. Journals with higher impact factor values are considered more prestigious or important within their field. The Impact Factor of a journa ...
of 4.298. In 2018, it ranked it 5th out of 16 journals in the category "Medical Ethics". The journal focuses on legal, moral, and social issues in
medicine Medicine is the science and Praxis (process), practice of caring for patients, managing the Medical diagnosis, diagnosis, prognosis, Preventive medicine, prevention, therapy, treatment, Palliative care, palliation of their injury or disease, ...
and the
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. It publishes a variety of article types that may take many forms: * articles that explore philosophical and ethical issues in medicine, health care, technology, medical research, the use of human subjects in research, and the environment * reports or reviews of empirical studies that implicate relevant philosophical and ethical questions * short, provocative essays; case studies (which may be accompanied by commentary on the case) * personal narratives about receiving or providing health care * and brief commentary on relevant events in the news


See also

*
List of ethics journals This is a list of peer-reviewed, academic journals in the field of ethics. ''Note'': there are many important academic magazines that are not true peer-reviewed journals. They are not listed here. {{compact ToC, seealso=yes A * '' American ...


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* {{Official website, http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Publications/HCR/Default.aspx Bioethics journals Academic journals established in 1971 Wiley-Blackwell academic journals Bimonthly journals English-language journals 1971 establishments in New York (state)